OF

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE:

CONTAINING,

A CATECHETICAL TREATISE

ON THE

LAW OF NATURE, NATIONAL LAW, MUNICIPAL LAW, CRIMINAL
LAW, MORAL LAW, GOVERNMENT, THE MAKING OF LAWS,
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, RELIGION, MANNERS, NO-
TICES, FACTS AND OPINIONS CONNECTED WITH

THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE,

ALSO,

ESSAYS ON READING, AND MAXIMS TO BE OBSERVED

IN LIFE.

Διδασκελoν τoυσο εστι μη α βουλεται ο μαθετες αλλια
συμφερε μαθειν διδασκειν.

“ It is the prerogative of an instructer, to teach his disciple not what he
wishes to learn, but what he, the instructer, sees fit to teach him."-St.
Chrysostom.

* Nemo vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.”

"No man was ever great who had not been made so by the breath of
God."- Cicero de Natura Deorum.

UTICA, N. Y.
PRESS OF DE WITT C. GROVE, 42 & 44 GENESEE STREET,

1851.
P. D:73